This guide provides a structured, step-by-step process to assist you in planning, launching, and sustaining effective intervention programs that reduce substance use. It highlights key considerations and action steps within each phase of the implementation cycle:

• Analyze data

• Map resources

• Plan

• Implement

• Evaluate

Use this template with your leadership team to identify needs, establish clear goals, and engage in continuous improvement processes.

This document serves as a template for mapping out responses to single or multiple student substance use incidents. A sample chart is included for reference. Suggested components include:

• Communication with, and involvement of, parents or guardians

• Involvement of law enforcement

• Substance use intervention programs to be used

• Processes for screening and referrals to treatment or tobacco cessation

• Any other means of correction, as applicable

• How these actions will scale and shift across repeated incidents

• If and how actions will differ based on the substance in question

Use this template with your leadership team to design a program that blends accountability and support for students.